The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.